Early Childhood PedagogicsLaajuus (7 cr)

Objective

The students are aware of and they can explain their own professional, ethical and pedagogical principles in early childhood education. The students can plan, implement and assess activity in accordance with the principles of child orientation in a goal-oriented way. He or she understands the children’s needs and resources in a particular context and is able to use working methods in an appropriate way.

Content

The growth, development, learning and perception of 0-7-year-old children, goals of early childhood education, contextual orientations, methods, assessment, process model of early childhood education, child orientation, evaluation of own professional development in early childhood education work.

Qualifications

The students know the significance of legal papers that regulate early childhood education, as well as that of children's age and development level and their growing environment in early childhood education. The students have ability to develop and consider their own educational work.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Very good - Excellent (4-5):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on an excellent level. The student participates in contact lessons and conversations in online environment and he/she completes the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows excellent capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to consider them critically. He/she knows how to utilize both Finnish and English sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Good (3): The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a good level. The student participates in contact lessons and the conversations in online environment and he/she completed the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to utilize sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Sufficient - Satisfactory (1-2):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a satisfactory level. The student participates occasionally in contact lessons and only a little or not at all in conversation in online environment. He/she completes the agreed assignments satisfactorily. In written assignments, he/she shows modest capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and he/she utilizes sources very little. The student follows only partly the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Fall (0): The student does not achieve the objectives and the competences of the course. Written tasks are not completed.